MR. HENRY PAD WICK. 



the same time and place the Flying Duchess, which, 

 after winning a nice stake or two for him, was in my 

 stud at Alvediston, and later became the dam of the 

 famous Derby winner Galopin, now such a fashionable 

 sire at Blankney, where he is located with Mr. 

 Chaplin's prince of stallions, Hermit, whose dam, by 

 the way, Seclusion, was also with me as a yearling. 

 On another occasion I bought with him Mr. Simpson's 

 yearlings, forty-five in number, at £40 each. But 

 long before the day appointed for their resale by 

 public auction, he withdrew from the contract ; and 

 rather than hold him to his verbal engagement, I took 

 them over myself. The sale, which took place at 

 Alvediston, was a fair one, and I had no cause to 

 regret the course I had taken ; and as to the result of 

 it, no one was more surprised perhaps than Mr. 

 Padwick himself. 



In connection with this sale, I should mention one, 

 to me, very disagreeable incident. When Brother 

 to Seclusion came up to the ring, a horse on which I 

 had put a reserve of 1,000 guineas, asking my brother 

 John to bid to that price for me, I noticed that he 

 went beyond that figure, and when some one had bid 

 1,050 guineas, he bid 1,100 guineas for him, at which 

 price, as I afterwards learned, he had bought him for 

 Mr. C. C. Greville. But this gentleman refused to 



take him. He declared that ' he was told I had run 

 him up ' (which was utterly untrue), and ' that he 

 was not worth the money ' (a thing he could not 





